To the west the town borders the city of Rensselaer from the North Greenbush line to southern tip of the city, then East Greenbush's border is with Albany County town of Bethlehem, the border being in the middle of the Hudson River.
By 1927, when The Atlantic Monthly published his short story Fifty Grand, Hemingway's first two books -- the collection of stories In Our Time (1925) and the novel The Sun Also Rises (1926) -- had already established the twenty-eight-year-old author as a rising literary star on the expatriate scene in Paris.
The running of the bulls, which starts on 7 July, originated from the need to transport the bulls from the offsite livestock enclosures to the bullfighting ring. It is believed the practice dates back to the 14th century, but it was first made famous outside of Spain by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises.